Why Do I Teach Spiritual Philosophy?

Sometimes people ask me why I teach Spiritual Philosophy? I don’t think that most of us ever feel passionate about anything because of only one concept that is in our thinking mind, but I have always felt passionate about living Spiritual Philosophy. My Mother was very religious and followed the Baptist beliefs, my father was not religious, but he had an inner peace that I found fascinating and when we were alone he would tell me stories about his life in France after being wounded. As a soldier that could not be sent back to the United States in his condition with slow ships, he lived at the hospital for longer than most people did.. He was an avid reader and he taught me to read before I started school.

As a child I was born sick and remained frequently sick until I was about 17 years old. There were no antibiotics when I was young and living with rheumatic fever. In my attempt to heal myself, I pushed my self with the daily labors of farm chores and when I lived this self-imposed work ethic, I found that the more I worked the healthier I felt and the healthier I actually became. As a child I spent many Sundays with my father, talking for hours because going to Church was not my favorite thing. He told me about what he had learned in France about Spiritual Philosophy, which totally intrigued me. I never heard him tell these stories to anyone else in our family or friends.

When I chose a Nursing School to attend, I chose a Catholic school because in my reading I had learned that Catholic Schools focus on good educations. That was enough for me because I wanted a "good education." As I listened to the Mass and the School Chaplain, I began to realize that Catholic Religion had always been a good support system for higher education. I became good friends with the Priest and spent many hours talking with him, which was my first introduction to Georgetown University and its teachings in Washington, DC. As my life continued and I was nearing graduation I made arrangements to move to Washington, DC to accept a research position in tuberculosis at DC General Hospital.

My decision to go into Medical Research and into Nursing Administration was the best decision of my life, and that dual exposure has constantly guided me in my thinking and into fantastic research programs and nursing positions throughout my nursing career. I have spent many years of my life studying and living Nursing Supervision, which always gave me the opportunity to research each hospital and how it functioned. My focus on research has taught me more about myself than I could ever have learned any where else. Every job that I have had has added to the internal knowledge of myself as a human being as well as the internal workings of hospitals and health care. My intense relationship to hospitals prompted me to write my first book, The Joy of Health in 1989, which we have just reissued.

I have not as yet seen the perfect hospital because we are continuing to look at disease as "our need to be saved," instead of accepting illness as a challenge to save ourselves as we eat, drink, and breathe.

Consciously choosing to live in our loving emotions

We must know who we are, what we want, and how to create what we want. This has always been the purpose of Spiritual Philosophy. Once we learn Spiritual Philosophy we will realize that we are learning about the internal design of us as human beings and we will be able to see how we grow and change through the expansion of our Dual Soul thinking mind, loving emotions, and our Eternal Spirit Senses. It becomes very clear to us that we do not know ourselves very well if we think that we are living and using only five physical senses, and we do not acknowledge that our Dual Soul thinking mind and loving emotions are accumulative organs that are designed to grow and change as we live our eternal lives of seeking knowledge and the physical experiences to support our knowledge.

The normal fear emotions of our physical nature of our ego and intellectual mind view life from an external perception, which we reflect outwardly from our left brain. Our fear emotions are the precise opposite of our loving emotions that live in our right brain.

It is important for us to know the energy of our fear emotions so that it can be our intention to focus constantly on our loving emotions and not to allow ourselves to slide back into our negative energy, which allows us to become permanently stuck in the negative energy. Choosing to live in our loving emotions should always be a conscious choice. If love is not our conscious choice, we will find ourselves living in fear as an unconscious choice, which will keep our thinking mind in a constant state of externalization. Externalization gives us the overall sense of being taken advantage of by everyone that we know. As we externalize our reality, we feel rejected by everyone that we come in contact with throughout our daily life. As we feel rejected, we also feel unloved. Once we become conscious of this scenario taking place within our thinking mind, we begin to realize that we are not living our loving emotions even though we expect everyone to be living their loving emotions towards us.

Understanding how we live our fear emotions, before we can open our thinking mind to live our loving emotions, is a gigantic step forward for us. The physical nature of our ego and intellectual soul mind which sees life with an external perception is not now and never has been about loving us and lifting us forward to see the true image of who we are and where we are going. As we have been evolving, our intellectual mind has been focused on itself more intensely than on other concepts, understandings, or people. This has created a very basic self-absorption that has gotten in the way of our thinking mind’s growth and change. As we learn to live our loving emotions, we have the power to lift ourselves out of our hopelessness, to be creative, and to be beautifully constructive in designing our future lives.